Don’t look now, but with 97% of the vote in Scott Colom (D) is up by 28 votes over Hyde-Smith (R-Incumbent) in the senate race in Mississippi.
AP has 97% counted and Colom has a 40-some vote lead.
22% in in AK as the polls close, Peltota (D) up by 12.
Obama was/is a superstar. And he can windsurf, too. James probably can’t. Not sure.
But he and Talarico are both articulate, principled men who don’t wimp out or waffle when it comes to taking a firm moral stand.
Alaska accepts absentee ballots that arrive up to 10 days after election day (15 days from overseas) so long as they are postmarked be election day. Unless it’s a landslide, it’ll be a while before the Alaska races are called.
12 votes???
Wasn’t there once an Independent Senator who cactused with whoever the majority of was?
John McCain? Barry Goldwater?
This was a shock. Don’t know if he can pull the same day…
Peltola has jumped to a good lead.
Deb haaland is the new governor for New Mexico!
Jimmy Saguaro
12 percent.
Wow. Amazing. Woo hoo! Good night, everyone.
Peltola ahead by 11.3% with 22% of the precincts counted per AP as of this writing.
Please welcome Dr. Senator Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed!
“To bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance” – George Washington, 1790
Right, so we have six states left to call.
ID, ME, and NE all have the Republican leading the independent.
MI and AK are trending Democrat right now, with MS neck-and-neck.
We’re looking at 55 or 56 seats for Democrats.
Looks like the billionaire tax got shot down in California.
Is it called for Alaska?
Not yet.
I’ll take the under.
The Senate (CNN) is 53 D (7 flips) to 41 R (no flips).
So six seats left.
I count MS, MI, NE, ID, AK. What am I missing?
MS is tied which is nuts
MI and AK (early) lean D
ID and NE lean R